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LVG C.VI - KP 1/72nd, injected, civil "kabine" conversion


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The area of the machine gun is filled:

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In regards specifically to the shape of the canopy, I trust more the plan from 1919 in Werkehrsflugzeuge der LVG  than the one on the Albatross publication, which seems to me slightly off compared to photos.

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Can't do much until I paint some parts, but it's raining copiously, so not now:

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I decided to open the door of the cabin and fabricate the interior:

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You may remember that I have another engine. The kit's exhaust is close enough but not really like the one seen in photos of the civil version, so that one will be kept with the kit's engine, while I use an Aeroclub one for this model:

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It only needs to eliminate the pipe that runs through the hole (present otherwise in some other planes) which I did, and perhaps eventually to trim down a bit the chimney:

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Canopy is dry-fitted to be able to measure and cut the door out.
A clear door is made from thick plastic. Windows will be masked using the Arctic Decals mask set and then all painted:

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The kit correctly portrays a cut in front of the aileron, where a lever/actuator has to go, though, that will need addition. The LVG had a different than normal way of actuating the ailerons:

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The cord wrapping around all wing struts is exaggerated in the kit, and completely absent off all photographs I have of the civil machines. So it is almost completely removed, in case it was there but painted over (rendering a much subtler and realistic effect.
Bear in mind that in the plane I am modeling all struts were the same color of the fuselage color (very light grey) and not wood, so don't autopilot and paint them brown, look at photos, that always somewhat, for some reason, unfathomable no doubt, relate better to reality than drawings or written accounts:

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